Here I post about my knitting, my dogs, my garden and other things that keep me busy.
Hundgestrickt is a word that I invented combining the German words for "dog" and for "knit" making it similar to "handgestrickt" for handknit (think of "houndknit") as that's what this blog is mostly about :-)

Thursday, 29 May 2008

I ordered yarn online for the first time. Always hesitated because I thought I had to feel the yarn first. But then I couldn’t get any lace yarn locally, so I searched online and finally ordered malabrigo lace yarn. For the Laminaria shawl in a green called lettuce and then I couldn’t help but also get some i a colour called cognac.

This yarn is so incredably soft, I could touch it all the time… Even Sweetheart often touches my WIP just to say “ this is SO soft”.and here it is: the beginning of the Laminaria shawl. Love to knit it so far.

click on this one to enlarge it and see it in all it's beauty - you can tell I am in love with this yarn and project...

Finally I decided to use Regia silk sock yarn for this one. Soft, shiny, thin enough, not too expensive and I even found a colour I really like, a warm dark green.320 stitches to cast on was not fun, but now I am on round three and the fun starts!Pattern is from the book "The Celtic collection" from Alice Staremore.

With new works in progress… more later.Thank you for your lovely comments on my Cromarty sweater. I really love it, loved to knit it though it took me so long but am very glad that I finally got to the end. I haven’t gotten around to take pictures of me wearing it and posting further details about it.

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I love knitting, crocheting, learning to spin, gardening, taking pictures, and I love my doggies of course...
I am born in '69, I'm German, and living in the beautiful Palatinate in south-western Germany, sometimes referred to as "German Tuscany".